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Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)
by Plato
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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love—as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and as a means of ethical education.
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- Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)
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- Plato
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- ISBN 10
- 0199540195
- ISBN 13
- 9780199540198
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- Oxford University Press
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- 2008. 160p. Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics.
- Date Published
- 2009
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